Portland advertiser vol 60 no. 27

ORSON PRATT AND THE ARGUS ON THE BIBLE.
The Argus, a short time since, justified slavery by quotations from the Old Testament; Orson Pratt the Mormon preacher, has lately delivered a ser-mon in the Tabernacle at Great Salt Lake City; and as reported by the correspondent of the New York Times, who was present, said
That recently certain American Congressmen, moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, had attempted to over-rule the divine decree by introducing a bill in Congress to punish poligamy as a criminal offence, thereby seeking to debar the Mormons from the enjoyment of a religious right. He denied that it was a crime in the sight of God, but, on the contrary, the holiest men of ancient times had practiced it, and that, too, with the sanction of God himself.

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ORSON PRATT AND THE ARGUS ON THE BIBLE.
The Argus, a short time since, justified slavery by quotations from the Old Testament; Orson Pratt the Mormon preacher, has lately delivered a ser-mon in the Tabernacle at Great Salt Lake City; and as reported by the correspondent of the New York Times, who was present, said
That recently certain American Congressmen, moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, had attempted to over-rule the divine decree by introducing a bill in Congress to punish poligamy as a criminal offence, thereby seeking to debar the Mormons from the enjoyment of a religious right. He denied that it was a crime in the sight of God, but, on the contrary, the holiest men of ancient times had practiced it, and that, too, with the sanction of God himself.